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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2012
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Imada, Saitama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, , JP;
Abstract
The optical image stabilizer sets a movable amount of an image stabilizing element to a first movable amount when a detection signal from a shake detector does not exceed a first value. The stabilizer sets the movable amount to a second movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value and then exceeds, without exceeding a second value, a third value within a first period of time, sets the movable amount to a third movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value and then does not exceed the second and third values, sets the movable amount to the second movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value, then exceeds the second value and thereafter exceeds a fourth value, and sets the movable amount to the third movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value and then exceeds the second value without exceeding the fourth value.